When DeVilbiss closed, much of its school district was absorbed by Start after a community effort urging TPS to merge Start into DeVilbiss had failed.

[4] Start's main and long-standing rivals is Washington Local Schools’ Whitmer Panthers, located just over two miles away on Clegg Drive.

The "Battle of Tremainsville" was a non-conference matchup from Start's inception in the early 1960s until Whitmer joined the City League in 2003.

Beginning with the 2011-12 school year, it reverted to a non-league matchup when Whitmer joined the new Three Rivers Athletic Conference.

Some of those clubs are: (years marked with an asterisk (*) denote a shared title)